Link to the text of the bill, since TFA is limited.

Probably the sticking point was:

There's also some reasonable limitations on data captured by drones (can't be kept long) and a requirement to log who requests drone missions. If only there was some federal body that could come up with some reasonable standard for all states...

It is no surprise really. Doesn't anyone remember when there were no third-party native iOS apps?

The initial implementation of something that can take my money is handled by a single vendor on their hardware while they sort out everything? Sounds like a good plan to me.

What I want to know is this: when did we 6-digit ID folks become the Lawn Guardians? Will no one think of the 4-digit'ers?!

Maybe they don't want to buy it, they just want to leak a salacious story on the day some other company had big news?

Isn't that why we have kids?

Well, the price is right, but people have been building modularly for a long time. Single room buildings don't really seem that challenging, especially since it is just a concrete box.

The Hilton Palacio Hotel in San Antonio was built in just 202 days, and that was 500 rooms, fully furnished, decorated and kitted (down to the bottle openers and coffee makers). And this was back in 1968.

Oh, I dunno, how about booking.com (about)? 'World's leading online accommodation provider' where 650K rooms a night are booked (they're owned by Priceline group, if that's a more popular brand where you live)?

A YAPC talk by one of their employees says 99% of their code is Perl. Check out their dev blog.

Ha! True (for me as well).

What's the difference between a hipster and a Perl hipster?

A hipster liked it before it was cool and doesn't now. A Perl hipster liked it when it was cool, and still does.

Perl 5.20 was just released and "represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.18.0 and contains approximately 470,000 lines of changes across 2,900 files from 124 authors."

That doesn't seem to bad to me, but I'm not sure how that number of core release authors compares to other languages like Python or Ruby.

Management considers this a "feature".

I was just going to write the same thing: if you hired someone you trust, trust that they are going to do the job well.

I like the three month transition plan given by Capt.DrumkenBum below, but I'd also like to add that you should try not to take too much pride or ownership in your existing systems. If new guy is going to change them and has good reason, be supportive, even if it feels personal. New guy has to run the ship now, let him run it the way it works, and works for him. Even if you have to say goodbye to one of your own creations and ways of doing things.

Having been there myself, it isn't always easy to go from micro to macro (or trusting someone else to handle some your old micro), but try to think of it is standing on shoulders instead of standing on toes. Now you have bigger challenges to face.

I'm sure there's a John Travlota joke about letting go to be made here...

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, because you'll probably to do it eventually.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tuf...

Porsche also used the same Williams tech for their endurance 911 GT3R.

Nothing really new to see here; another instance of racing tech trickling down to production vehicles.

We need these little setbacks to take a giant leap forward, right Kent?